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"women and children"
Topic Started: Jan 12 2009, 07:29 PM (107 Views)
pianojerome
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All of these articles about Gaza talk about the "women and children" who are killed.

http://mobile.latimes.com/inf/infomo;JSESSIONID=91362C823BBF02F97E26.160?view=World+News+Item&feed:a=latimes_1min&feed:c=worldnews&feed:i=44467814&part=2
 
About 880 Palestinians, more than a third of them women and children, have been killed


Is that sexist? I wonder if anyone would write "About 880 Palestinians, almost two thirds of them men, have been killed".
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Horace
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That's pretty hard wired, even in male-dominated societies. Women and children are more important to the survival of the species than men are, since one man can pretty much replenish a society if there are enough women about! (That's probably why men are so drawn to killing one another over silly things. The ultimate goal is to be the last man standing!)
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dolmansaxlil
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Horace has a good point. It's hard wired and we've come to expect it.

Also, I wonder if it's started because, until very recently, women weren't soldiers - so it emphasizes the fact that these are non-coms that are being killed?
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